A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

Man is not made for defeat.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Hear me, my chiefs: I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

After a couple of days and after a hundred coffees and a thousand cigarettes and a million words and quite a few lunchtime beers we were able to agree that we didn't know nothing.

Who, apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

The light of the one weak lamp in a rusty circle fell across the brickheaps and the broken wood and the dust that had been houses once, where the small and hardly known and never-to-be-forgotten people of the dirty town had lived and loved and died and, always, lost.

I see as in a vision the dying spark of our council fires, the ashes cold and white. I see no longer the curling smoke rising from our lodge poles. I hear no longer the songs of the women as they prepare the meal. The antelope have gone; the buffalo wallows are empty. Only the wail of the coyote is heard... . We are like birds with a broken wing. My heart is cold within me. My eyes are growing dim-I am old.